Alphabet Quote by Marshall McLuhan

One of the fascinating things about early writing on slates, on papyrus, even on early handwritten books, is for instance, there were no space…

— Nicholas G. Carr

“Before the spread of alphabetic writing, systems making much use of logograms were more common and included Egyptian hieroglyphs, Maya glyphs, and Sumerian cuneiform.”

— Jared Diamond

To me, the circle and the square where the sky and the earth, as symbolized by the ancient Oriental religions; they formed a kind…

— Michel Seuphor

“Writing writhed across the surface of the stone, runes that looked a little familiar. Norse, maybe? Some of them looked more like Egyptian. They…

— Jim Butcher

Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.

— J. L. Austin

“The writing system at the opposite extreme took the longest to emerge: the alphabet, one symbol for one minimal sound. The alphabet is the…

— James Gleick

“From the early days of its existence, cryptology had served to obscure critical portions of writings dealing with the potent subject of magic—divinations, spells,…

— David Kahn

“The direction in which the characters look determines the direction in which they should be read. This alternate or boustrophedon mode of writing also…

— A. H. SAYCE

“The letters of the alphabet, a, b, c, etc., have no meaning whatever. They are but artificial signs, but when spelt they can express…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“The Palmyrene dialect was a modification of the early Hebrew, and its alphabet was among the first to diverge from the more ancient letter-forms…

— James John Courtenay

“A comparative study will lead to the conclusion that the Phoenician, Aramaic and Greek alphabets were developed from one original.”

— James John Courtenay

When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of…

— Alexander Kluge